Navdeep Chandel, PhD, David W. Cugell Professor of Medicine, has received the National Cancer Institute’s Outstanding Investigator Award to explore how mitochondrial metabolism plays a role in cancer.
Browsing: Awards
Fourth-year medical students and faculty members were recognized for their academic achievements and teaching at the fourth annual Honors Day celebration, on May 20.
Matthew Genet, a first-year medical student, received a 2016 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society for his brain cancer research.
Samuel Stupp, PhD, director of the Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, has been honored with the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award.
Dane Chetkovich, MD, PhD, professor of Neurology and Physiology, has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop novel antidepressant therapies.
Two Feinberg faculty members received Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards for projects exploring autism spectrum disorder and Crohn’s disease.
Lifang Hou, MD, PhD, chief of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in the Department of Preventive Medicine, has been named a member of a blue ribbon panel that will help inform the scientific direction of Vice President Joe Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
Nearly 400 students, staff, trainees and junior faculty presented abstracts at the annual research showcase.
Feinberg ranked 18th among U.S. medical schools in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in 2015, according to calculations by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
Resident Kristine Paik, MD received the American Academy of Pediatrics Resident Research Award(AAP) for her study “Incidence, independent predictors, and outcomes of unplanned, postoperative intubation in the pediatric patient” at the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) 2016 meeting.